Walleye Junction

I suspect that for fans of this series, this installment in detective Macy Greeley's career will be perfectly satisfying and enjoyable, but I just couldn't get into it. Macy feels like she was shoehorned into the plot from a parallel dimension; she has a tediously complicated backstory and the most awkward sounding conversations with her mother (so awkward it actually made me wonder if the mother was the murderer). And I kept getting her confused with victim's daughter.

That being said, I quite enjoyed the mystery plot itself: there was some nice head-fakery when it came to whodunit and the non-police characters were fairly sympathetic, while the pacing (save for the pointless forays into Macy's uninteresting life) was consistently taut.

I recieved a free review copy of this book from Minotaur Books.